[HPforGrownups] Re: The female founders and Latin

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 40197

In her very interesting post, Pip said:
>
> Still pretty unusual for women in the 10th and 11th Century, but not
> unknown. Latin speaking women tended to be nuns, and some of their
> writings have survived to this day - as witches were also
> an 'educated' class, they would have had to learn the language of
> international scholarship - Latin.
>

But would this apply to witches and wizards? I would have assumed that Hula
and Rowena, like all wizards and witches, had some training from family
members or magical friends, which could very well have included something
like "Latin for Magical Folk".

Or do we think that magical folk in the dark ages had connections with the
church?

Zo